By handing a game to Osaka, Ramos legitimately decided at least 1/3 of the entire match, and then you throw in the additional point he handed over, plus the added stress he put on Williams by making those decisions (she went from being tied in the 2nd match to down 40-15 on the last game due to the refs decisions).

But there is no similar rule in the NBA. Say there was, if you could get a 3rd T, that triggered a fourfit. Then Ron Arrest gets two; goes buckwild and charges into the stands again. Does the ref just ignore it because the punishment is to much?

One thing that has been interesting to me: can you come up with a modern example?  I mean Johnny Mac was bad and all, but it isn’t 1984.  

I pointed out a rule at Wimbledon that a match started under the roof must finish under the roof, nothing more, and was called a rascist (because I had posted on Deadspin) by another commenter and then was promptly greyed by the author. Your voice certainly did not deserve the reaction it received. If there is…

You mean like when you question the integrity of someone else without having a shred of evidence for your claims and are ignoring plenty of evidence against it, and your sole rationale is irrational hero worship for his supposed victim?

I missed the part where Serena played against a man who acted just as boorishly as she did but didn’t get called for it.

Received coaching: check (she claims she didn’t see him, but she also claimed on the court that he was giving her “an encouraging thumbs up”)

Well, I’m probably going to have to eat a ban now, so it was fun while it lasted!

This is what he does man. It’s nothing new. He is who we thought he was

Actually Chris does it quite a bit. But 50 Shades said nothing that would be deserving of even the threat of ban. Chris simply didn’t like that 50 Shades continued to question his take. He took a quick low blow at 50, and when that got responded to he resorted to that weak threat.

Here’s my take I posted on another blog here...Serena is being coddled as fuck by this site for acting like a complete ass.

I dunno. It kind of came out of nowhere. I didn’t agree with his original premise, he said my reading of it was disingenuous, I countered with a Ben Rothenberg tweet — since he’s a guy who knows tennis — that Serena’s was a textbook case of verbal abuse, and then he gave me the yellow card. Not sure why that would be…

For what it’s worth, when I read Chris’ article I did a double take at that last paragraph (“whichever side you’re on, you must agree that side B failed miserably”). Maybe the Kinja game has changed in my time away, but banning a dedicated commenter for politely voicing a majority opinion seems a bit thin-skinned IMO.

I just kind of feel like, after about six years of pretty regular commentary, it’s odd to be threatened with a ban not for something that violates terms of service, but for disagreeing with an opinion. But then I’m someone who will keep the argument going long after the rest of the world has moved on (usually that’s…

Facts are hard:

Guessing it’s not a coincidence you’re in the grays now. Also super weird that he decided to follow you back to you own (unrelated) blog post to threaten the ban, instead of replying to you directly.

I’d just like to point out that the morning after the women’s final, I was threatened here with a commenting ban because I disagreed with the author and deigned to say that Serena was wrong and Ramos was doing his job. That seemed a little short-sighted/heavy-handed, given that the author believed a verbal abuse…

This is bad, take this down.

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